It’s About Time: Quantum Break Coming To PC

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Remedy (Max Payne, Alan Wake) have been making gorgeous, violent games about angry-sad men for years now. When they announced their latest, Quantum Break [official site], it was revealed as an Xbox One exclusive. Moments ago, they announced that the time-troubling action game will also be coming to PCs. As long as those PCs are running Windows 10. There’s a proper trailer below, along with a newly released live action thing.

The game is set in a world where time is out of joint. It seems lead character Jack Joyce (I’d have called him Rolex Clock but there it is) was born to set it right.

“When time breaks, catastrophe becomes your playground. As hero Jack Joyce, you’ll fight your way through epic disasters that stutter back and forth in time. But surviving this unstable world–and halting the end of time itself–is only possible by mastering your new time powers.”

It looks entertaining enough and, weirdly, I’m always happy to see Lance Reddick even though I’ve seen him in some duffers over the years. Most recently, he unexpectedly appeared in the pleasantly weird The Guest though, so he’s earned some goodwill.

There’s an actual “digital live action series” that will follow the story of the villains. Apparently choices you make at the end of each chapter in the game will affect both the game and the show. I’ll probably avoid worrying about all of that by failing to watch the show.

Of the PC release, Remedy say:

“Today we have a lot to be excited about. First of all, we’re proud to continue Remedy’s 20-year journey of making games for PC by announcing the Windows 10 version of our latest blockbuster game Quantum Break. It launches simultaneously with the Xbox One version on April 5th, 2016 and is included as a bonus item for Xbox One pre-orders.”

There’s all kinds of Xbox/Win10 crossover stuff here as well. Save games will be compatible between versions and if you preorder from the official Xbox store or site (as well as some participating retailers, it sez here) you’ll get a copy of the PC version as well. Release date for both platforms is April 5th.

I don’t have much else right now so here are some minimum and recommended specs. Tasty.

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Wow, well that came out of nowhere. After assuming for ages that we wouldn’t get Quantum Break at all, turns out we’re getting it alongside the XONE. My remaining doubt is that they’re going to only release this through the Microsoft Store on Windows 10; I fear that it won’t be on Steam for example.

As a Windows Phone user, I actually use it fairly frequently. But that’s exactly my point: If Microsoft upped their game and are able to evolve the Store into a halfway decent competitor to Steam, it’d be quite an interesting show to watch — especially when you factor in Valve’s growing ambitions with SteamOS.

Yeah it needs a bunch of work though. The fact that when you click “games” the first list that pops up is their list of free shovelware like candy crush and other nonsense doesn’t give me high hopes as to where their priorities lie though.

I’m intrigued to know why you chose to remove the store? I have had Win10 since it invited me (July maybe?) and haven’t even noticed that the store is there in this whole time. What did it do to provoke such action?

Windows 10 only will kill the game and give them the “PC gamers don’t want our games” excuse to never bring any more games to our platform in the future.
They know windows 10 is likely to damage sales, and microsoft store will KILL sales. Their marketing team isn’t stupid.
So you have to ask yourself why they would knowingly do this? To intentionally have bad sales so they then have an excuse to never come to PC again.

Not that I’m suggesting it’s a deliberate policy, but what he’s describing is basically what happened with Halo isn’t it?

Game comes out as a Vista exclusive, doesn’t sell, “whoops, I guess people weren’t interested”, and the closest Halo’s come to PC-side since has been iffy ports of phone games, and a dodgy Russia-only micro-transaction based F2P FPS based off of Halo 3’s multiplayer (which IIRC they’ve closed down now?).

This from, as we’re frequently told, a “truly committed to PC gaming” Microsoft.

Mind you, after the mess that was the Master Chief Edition, and from what I understand was a fairly mediocre Guardians, I’m beginning to feel like it’s no big loss anymore.

Halo was always an overrated pile of crap anyway. Built up as the best game ever by gamepad wielding console gamers who simply didn’t know any better. I played Combat Evolved on PC and nothing about it made me think it was anything more than a fairly good FPS but nowhere near the stuff I’d already played.

And here I thought they’ll do it so someone actually supports their new OS “philosophy”.
My Windows 10 installations aren’t all pure joy nevermind tech evangelists running campaigns for a year.
Besides they already did this with GFWL (rest in peace) so why repeat.

Or you know, to entice more people to upgrade to win 10… How about you ask yourself what the fuck going to all this trouble to make an excuse for not making PC games would achieve? If they don’t want to make PC games they just wouldn’t make PC games.

I actually do think that one of the reasons recommended specs seem so high of late is because the recommended means everything turned on at 1080p, never dropping below 60fps. They might not have uber fancies, like super sampling.

I’m sure this never used to be the case, with recommended giving you something playable at about mid-high settings at around 40fps average.

It makes me sad as I have recently moved to a country with terrible internet. Oh how I miss my (unlimited bandwidth) 10Mbit connection I so often cursed at for being slower than others. I realise how lucky I was…

Downloading digital games now not only takes me a really long time but due to having to pay for extra bandwidth it makes games way more expensive too :(

Rise of the Tomb Raider?
Tomb Raider was always on PC. MS did nothing to push PC gaming with it, they just paid some money to make sure it releases on Xbox first (and to make ROTR the first Tomb Raider not releasing on OSX).

MS had nothing to do with Tomb Raider outside of throwing money at Square Enix so they would delay releasing it on other platforms.
This however is a MS published game so they’ve payed for the whole thing and these decisions are entirely their own.

Not really, the sentiment from PC gamers is usually “Don’t fuck up our game because you are releasing it on consoles”. Most of us don’t give a crap if it’s multiplatform or not as long as it doesn’t affect our version.
Console gamers seem to actively celebrate other people being denied the opportunity to play a game.

Excited for this, but those recommended requirements seem like an ass covering measure incase they’re not able to optimize it for whatever reason. Remedy’s PC releases have always been extremely solid, though, so I’m optimistic.

Know I only speak for a small group of us (relatives, friends, etc.), but Win 10=we Pass. Right or not, we’ve all stuck with Win 7. Most them didn’t want a reformat/wipe, but still.
I’m just happy with Win 7, like I was with 98SE.

Yeah. The level of hassle of migrating to Windows 10 is about the level of hassle of migrating to Linux for me.

Oh, Windows 10 will be 1 click away. But so will all my life and sanity.
At least with Linux I loose a couple of games, and not function/privacy/control. You can choose 1 of those things to loose, and I’ll be happy (TV/mobile OS/Console/PC etc diff benefits/drawbacks). Take all of them, and I no longer have a PC, so I’ll skip your “OS” thanks.

Lot of negativity going on in these comments re: Windows 10 and MS Storefronts. Personally, could not give a shit about that. I’ll buy it wherever it’s sold and lol just lol if you aren’t running Win10 on a gaming PC (seriously, it’s fine–just upgrade already).

Max Payne 2 is one of the best games ever with regards to level design and third-person-gun-shootery (which Rockstar somehow took a big step back with in Max Payne 3) and I loved the hell out of Alan Wake. Looking forward to this and the ever-present dream of Alan Wake 2.

If we have a dedicated gaming PC, then Windows 10 is fine. It will get games on it, nothing else.

While my PC is currently a multi-purpose use thingy, I’m never putting 10 near it. My laptop could get 10, as well, features and things I might like to use.

But strangely, I don’t want a Windows 10 driver bricking my expensive gaming PC either (yep, seen it happen, took 3 me days to figure out how to deactivate all of Win10 features breaking drivers for a neighbour).

Windows 10 only? Because M$. I can understand the meaning of console exclusive so your competitions (examples: Sony, Nintendo) will not get the same stuff. But Windows 10 only? Does this game really use some DX12 exclusive feature? If yes, I want to know what. Or to M$, they don’t see all the non-Windows 10 user as their “customer or supporter” anymore. This is the reason why I hate monopoly and Microsoft. Remember how “good” the Halo 2 for Windows Vista sold?﻿

They see Windows 7 as customers (particularly for embedded and enterprise users), but they want to move games over on to Windows 10 so that it’s easier to focus their support on a single operating system (and presumably so they can bury Win8 as a bad idea and pretend it never happened). Ain’t nothing sinister in it.